The Inferiority Curse Part 1

Ben had an inferiority complex. No, a REAL inferiority complex. He was born with what scientists would later call Corpus Micromitis, and the media would come to call, the “Inferiority Curse.” The gist of it was, Ben suffered a chain chemical reaction when introduced to the DNA of any guy Ben psychologically felt inferior to. The reaction matched the emotion: if he felt small, he BECAME small.

While dormant throughout most of his adolescence, it boiled to the surface when he started his first year in college, and coincidentally, that was the very year the story broke nationwide that there were reports of people actually shrinking from coming into contact with other people.

Ben was a loner. A good student who kept to himself and never really felt like he was one of the guys. At first he just envied their confidence and comraderie. But eventually, he started to envy their bodies that just seemed more put together, more capable, more masculine than his own lean frame. At 5’11’’, 160 pounds Ben was in good shape and overall a pretty good looking chap. Girls were always trying to date him even if he never had much interest and would rather be alone. But he was always thin and as a ginger a common target of bullying, and because he doubted himself would avoid any occasion where he had to exert his strength in competition with another dude.